How hard did the actors of the famous dance Guanyin with a Thousand Hands really work?

There are many kinds of legendary Guanyin, but the one that is hard to forget is the "Thousand-armed Guanyin" dance performed by 21 deaf and mute people at the 2005 Spring Festival Gala. The legendary "Thousand-armed Guanyin" was performed so movingly that everyone who watched the performance was deeply shocked.

The Spring Festival Gala version of "Thousand-armed Guanyin" was released like this.

"Thousand-armed Kannon" has been produced in 3 versions. In 2000, at the invitation of the United States, the China Disabled Persons Art Troupe performed in the United States with "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands - My Dream" and made its debut to the public. This is the first version of "Thousand-armed Guanyin", with only 12 actresses participating, and the content is relatively thin, and the shape is simple and soft.

On September 28, 2004, "Thousand-armed Kannon" was performed for 5 minutes and 54 seconds at the closing ceremony of the International Paralympic Games in Athens, and this is the second version, adding 9 male actors to the revision of "Thousand-armed Kannon", becoming 21 Kannon.

Attentive viewers may find that the clothes worn by the Spring Festival Gala "Thousand-armed Guanyin" are different from those worn at the Athens Paralympics. The actors' clothes were particularly worn, as they were sewn from silk. We remade Guanyin's clothes, changed the "Chinese yellow" clothes worn at the Athens Paralympic Games to bright yellow, and changed all the sequis on the hem of the skirt to bronze translucent colors, so that the clothes were more cohesive.

The actor's hat was heightened, Guanyin's nails were redesigned, silver sequins were added, and the eyes between each Guanyin's fingers and palms were added with a luminous function that reflected in the dimest light.

Because it is "Thousand-armed Guanyin", it is mainly to make a big article in the hands. What impressed me the most was in the adjustment of a subtle movement, everyone put their hands back to the position where they had just started, shouted to stop, and then left their wrists on a scale, at this time the fingertips of both hands were **, and the actors opened their hands one by one by their little thumbs, and then opened their hands by thumbs one by one, lighting up the eyes in the palms of both hands. Suddenly, I felt that the eyes in front of me were really like Guanyin opening his Zen eyes, which was a great shock.

The movements of "Thousand Hands Guanyin" are rigid and soft, soft and rigid, and the rigid movements are relatively easy for the 9 young men, but the soft movements make it very difficult for the men. Especially practicing orchid fingers. When they were asked to practice orchid fingers, they were rough and stupid no matter how they posed, and the choreographer Zhang Jigang gave them a death order:

You must practice the orchid finger like a girl, and whoever can't practice it well will leave! ”

In order to help these boys find their feelings as soon as possible, we let these boys learn the expressions of girls, and let 9 boys find 9 girls to practice standing, hand posture, dancing posture, foot posture and expression, how you dance, how I dance, how you laugh, I laugh. When I first started to practice male and female eye contact, it was more difficult, and they could easily get distracted. At this time, we teach them to control themselves and not have distractions.

Although these 9 boys are often teased as "Dong Shi Xiaofeng", it is through this method that their smiles and gestures have a little feminine charm. <>

The original creator of "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands" is called "Zhang Jigang".

In 2004, a dance called "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands" made a splash at the closing ceremony of the Athens Paralympic Games, "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands" was created by choreographer Zhang Jigang and performed by 21 deaf and mute actors with an average age of 21.

In an interview with reporters, Zhang Jigang talked about the creation process of the China Disabled Persons' Art Troupe's version of "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands": "From 1996 to 1997, I found that there are statues and sculptures of Guanyin with a thousand hands in many places of interest, among which the one that impressed me the most was the statue of Guanyin with a thousand hands in Shuanglin Temple in Pingyao, Shanxi Province and Chongshan Temple in Taiyuan.

Of course, I also saw the statue of the thousand-armed Guanyin in the Yungang Grottoes, which gave me a great shock, and I wanted to create such a theme, and then this theme was put down.

In 2000, when the China Disabled Persons Art Troupe visited the United States, I was the artistic director, and we felt that we should create a dance with this theme, so "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands" was performed in the United States.

At that time, the first creator was Wang Luming, and the composer of the version of "Thousand Hands Guanyin" at the Greek Paralympic Games and the ** TV Najan Spring Festival Gala was Zhang Qianyi. ”

At the Spring Festival Gala, "Thousand Hands View Hole Finger Pants Sound" won the first prize of the most popular program among the audience. The China Disabled Persons Art Troupe registered the copyright for the dance "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands".

A total of 21 people performed the dance "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands", and the dance was choreographed and directed by Zhang Jigang, the artistic director of the China Disabled Persons Art Troupe and the head of the General Political Song and Dance Troupe.

For the situation that they can't hear **, how do the actors match the rhythm and perfectly interpret the dance "Thousand Hands Guanyin"?

Tai Lihua revealed that at the scene of the performance, four sign language teachers of the art troupe were located at the four corners of the stage and directed them in sign language. "Although we can't hear **, but the sign language teachers are our ears, they convey to us with the rhythm of ** in beautiful sign language, after countless rehearsals, we are very familiar with the melody of **, **has been integrated into our body, into our blood. ”

Why are your fingers so flexible?

Heart and hand are connected, we deaf and mute people usually communicate through sign language, our fingers are flexible, and we are better at using our hands to express feelings. "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands" tells the inner language through the rich hand changes of Guanyin, which is especially suitable for our deaf and mute performances, and the application of sign language in dance has become a dance language, and the changing movements express our hearts, which is more artistic beauty and appeal. ”

The meaning of the Thousand-Armed Guanyin:

Thousands of hands are arranged in several layers with a fan surface, such as a peacock opening the screen. The thousand hands represent the protection of all sentient beings, the thousand eyes represent the whole world, and the thousand hands Guanyin expresses the meaning of crossing all sentient beings and being vast and unhindered.

There are many versions of the Thousand-Armed Guanyin, the Paralympic Games practiced for more than three months, and the Thousand-Armed Guanyin of the Spring Festival Gala practiced for more than a month, from January 10, 2005 until the official performance of the Spring Festival Gala.

I don't know if it's the same time to start training every day, but they have to get up at 6 a.m. to run when they start training on January 10, and the rest of the day should be about the same. They practice for at least 12 hours a day, and many times for longer.

When it comes to how to practice, it's more complicated, and it's not something that can be explained clearly in a few words. Roughly speaking, the command of the sign language teacher is their **, and by looking at the teacher's gestures, they can be uniform. When they practiced, if anyone made a mistake, the teacher would draw a watercolor pen on their wrist and ask them to memorize it.

During rehearsals, the training process is recorded with a camera, and they are allowed to look at it repeatedly during breaks to find their shortcomings. In addition, by letting them touch the speaker and feel the rhythm of **, let the actor constantly imitate the actress's orchid finger, so that the 21 people are like a whole. There are too many details.

When the actor rehearses the Thousand-Armed Kannon, in order to achieve the goal of uniformity, the actor must be meticulous to the end. Every movement, every gesture, and even every expression is carefully polished during rehearsals to ensure that they are accurate. For example, when the choreographer asks the performers to form a column, the toes of the latter actor must be pressed against the heel of the previous actor, and the tip of the nose must be pressed against the back of the head of the previous actor.

This sentence is easy to say, in fact, it is very difficult to do, ordinary people can't even hold on for a few minutes, but in the rehearsal hall they will often stand motionless for several hours, only such strict training can ensure that the 21 Guanyin stand firmly on the lotus platform of the meter.

The charity shape of the ring-shaped Guanyin was the most difficult movement in our training. This action requires each player's hand to be in a fixed position, stretched out neither high nor low, the girl's movements are soft and changeable, and the retraction should be neat, rigid and soft. Just this kind of action, the team members practiced thousands of times.

In order to help the children practice this movement, the sign language teacher and I came up with a lot of ideas for the children. We measure the position of each person's hand with a ruler and draw it on the wall, and let the children practice against the scale on the wall.

It is said that the rehearsals were very hard.

Ordinary people stretch out their arms and take 100 steps forward.

You will feel that your shoulders are strained;

The martial arts athlete stretched out his arms (or "consumed mountain arms") for 5 minutes, and he also felt uncomfortable that the actors of "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands" were all deaf and mute.

Their main dance moves are, flattening, raising, and rotating their arms, and their strength can be imagined, and they are deaf, and they need to rely on the command of the sign language teacher to close the rhythm and the neatness of the queue to achieve a tight fit with each other.

The actors of the Spring Festival Gala Thousand Hands Guanyin are a group of deaf and mute people, and they rely on gestures to rehearse and rehearse, and they are all snake dances in the world. Their rehearsals were hard. We must know how to appreciate and let their efforts be recognized!

I remember that at the "Spring Festival Gala", the performance of "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands" caused a sensation across the country, and director Zhang Jigang, Tai Lihua, who led the dance, and her partners all became celebrities. It is quite difficult to rehearse such a dance, because the dancers are all deaf and mute, and they can't hear the ** and rhythm, so they must have a special person and use mute gestures to guide them on the spot!

(1) People with a strong will, can bravely face setbacks, and are good at turning stumbling blocks on the way forward into stepping stones, so as to achieve success; People with a strong will can overcome difficulties and setbacks and achieve their goals with a tenacious spirit and indomitable perseverance.

2) Treat setbacks and difficulties correctly and be a strong-willed person. To sharpen one's will, one must set the right goal and start from small things.

Question (1) is that the successful performance of the dance "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands" is inseparable from the unimaginable hard training of the performers, and the strong will that can not be separated from them. Only people with a strong will can have a tenacious spirit and indomitable perseverance, overcome difficulties and setbacks, and achieve their goals.

The first question (2) is how to learn the strong will of the performers of "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands", starting from how to sharpen one's will quality in life, first of all, we must formulate clear goals and plans to make one's will training more targeted and effective; Start small and persevere.

The strength of the will, sharpening the strong will.

Because the actor is deaf and mute, the sign language teacher of the orchestra is present, and the teacher listens to the ** use sign language to signal the students' movements, and it is only after repeated practice that it succeeds.

Because the Senju Kannon performers are all hearing-impaired, they are guided by sign language teachers during rehearsals, and sign language teachers guide them in places where they can see during performances.

The dance Thousand Hands Guanyin, choreographed by the head of the General Political Song and Dance Troupe, a total of 21 dancers, are all deaf and mute, so classic and wonderful, it has become a great masterpiece, they have paid a lot of hard work during the rehearsal, because the deaf and mute can't hear, and the language can't communicate, and they also used the language with the gestures of the deaf and mute to help, and the rehearsal was successful.

This dance must have taken a lot of effort, the dance teacher gave good guidance, after sign language, movements, rehearsals, eyesight, perseverance, and the cooperation of the dancers in all aspects, so many delicate and skilled dance moves were rehearsed.

The actors of the Thousand-Armed Kannon performance, they rehearsed very complicated, and it was also very difficult. Because in the dance performance of the Thousand-Armed Kannon, it will have a lot of movements, and it must be flexible and coherent to form a complete thing.

The deaf-mute danced "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands" by the front desk teacher with them, and the sign language teacher guided them with his hand opposite the dancer.

The thousand-handed Guanyin performance is deeply loved by everyone, and many units are imitating in the performance, this arrangement is the hand of the first person, the hand of the second person, so that the accumulation can not overlap after coming out, the arrangement is not complicated, it is very easy, it is to practice more.

The Thousand-Armed Kannon actors are guided by sign language teachers under the rehearsal stage, and since the actors have learned sign language, they can complete the dance according to the teacher's guidance.

Rehearsing under the guidance of a deaf teacher is much more difficult than that of ordinary dancers.

The rehearsals of the performers of "Guanyin" rely on sign language to guide the actors' rehearsals.

The actors have to go through thousands of exercises in front of the mirror under the guidance of the teacher. The actors of (Thousand Hands Guanyin) are all disabled children, and the hardships they pay are many times better than those of able-bodied people, praise for them.

The main thing is to look at the teacher's gestures. To make movements, he has to look at gestures because he can't listen to **.

On September 28, a performance at the closing ceremony of the Athens Paralympics.

CCTV Spring Festival Gala.

Performance in Washington, D.C., USA.

He was selected as an Artist for Peace by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Opening performance at the Beijing Paralympics.

On November 10 of the same year, the "Disabled Art Troupe" performed a number of programs such as the dance "Thousand-armed Kannon" for the heads of state attending the APEC meeting.

7.The United Nations Postal Service issues a set of stamps reflecting the art of persons with disabilities, including the famous dance "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands" by the China Disabled Persons Art Troupe. The "Thousand-Armed Kannon" stamp is the smallest print run in the entire set, making it one of the most valuable United Nations stamps.

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